Other scholars have even said that Luke wrote this apology in order to support Christians who were becoming allies with local Roman officials.

Other scholars, including C. C. Torrey, Kline and Jordan argue that the word is derived from the Hebrew moed (), meaning " assembly ".

( Other scholars suggest that chapters 55 – 66 were written by Deutero-Isaiah after the fall of Babylon.

Other scholars have presented evidence pointing to a post-monarchic date ( as late as 200 BC ) based on language and theme, although the book might still have been based on an earlier composition.

Other scholars reject this theory.

Other names have been used to describe this disease, such as " The Black Plague " and " The Black Death "; the latter is now used primarily by scholars to describe the second, and most devastating, pandemic of the disease.

Other scholars have responded that Banquo's dreams have less to do with killing the king and more to do with Macbeth.

Other distinguished researchers have been affiliated with Caltech as postdoctoral scholars ( for example, Barbara McClintock, James D. Watson and Sheldon Glashow ) or visiting professors ( for example, Albert Einstein, Stephen Hawking and Edward Witten ).

Other scholars conclude that the Abomination of Desolation refers to the Crucifixion, an attempt by the emperor Hadrian to erect a statue to Jupiter in the Jewish temple, or an attempt by Caligula to have a statue depicting him as Zeus built in the temple.

Other scholars have referred to it simply as a caste system.

" — Other Taoism scholars, such as Michael LaFargue and Jonathan Herman, argue that while they are poor scholarship they meet a real spiritual need in the West.

Other scholars stress the omnipotence of the State ( with its consequent suspension of rights ) as the key element of a dictatorship and argue that such concentration of power can be legitimate or not depending on the circumstances, objectives and methods employed.

Other scholars, including the former Attorney-General of Ethiopia, Bereket Habte Selassie, contend that, " religious tensions here and there ... were exploited by the British, most Eritreans ( Christians and Moslems ) were united in their goal of freedom and independence.

Other scholars have suggested that Hebrews is part of an internal New Testament debate between the extreme Judaizers ( who argued that non-Jews must convert to Judaism before they can receive the Holy Spirit of Jesus ' Jewish covenant ) versus the extreme Antinomians ( who argued that Jews must reject God's commandments and that Jewish law was no longer in effect ).

Biblical scholars are in general agreement that it was written by St. Paul to the church of Philippi, an early center of Christianity in Greece around 62 A. D. Other scholars argue for an earlier date, c. 50-60 A. D.

( Acts, ) Other scholars have suggested that it was written from Caesarea or Ephesus.

Other scholars, such as Schmithals, Eckhart, Demke and Munro, have developed complicated theories involving redaction and interpolation in 1 and 2 Thessalonians.

Other scholars refute these arguments — particularly since Josephus describes some Essenes as allowing marriage.

" Other scholars noted that big business developed an increasingly close partnership with the Nazi and Fascist governments as it became increasingly organized.

Other biblical scholars have argued that rather than being connected with Heth, son of Canaan, instead the Anatolian land of Hatti was mentioned in Old Testament literature and apocrypha as " Kittim " ( Chittim ), a people said to be named for a son of Javan.

Other scholars consider this inconclusive.

Other scholars still support the idea that Homer was a real person.

Other scholars of the Hebrides and inhabitants of the region do not consider this a myth, as there are sufficient records in both the oral tradition and the written compilation of those records that predate both Pennant and Anton by a century or more that preserve the history of this tradition.

Other scholars, drawing upon distinctions between Jewish Christians, Pauline Christianity, and other groups such as and Marcionites, argue that early Christianity was always fragmented, with contemporaneous competing beliefs.

Other anthropological approaches that deal with various aspects of community include cross-cultural studies and the anthropology of religion.

Other religions together accounted for 0. 6 per cent of respondents and 5. 5 per cent did not state a religion.

Other examples of syncretism include Judeo-Paganists, a loosely organized set of Jews who incorporate pagan or Wiccan beliefs with some Jewish religious practices, like Messianic Judaism ; Jewish Buddhists, another loosely organized group that incorporates elements of Asian spirituality in their faith ; and some Renewal Jews who borrow freely and openly from Buddhism, Sufism, Native American religion, and other faiths.

Other scholars suggested the shramana traditions were separate and contemporaneous with Indo-Aryan religious practices of the historical Vedic religion.

Other publications on Zambian Humanism are: Fundamentals of Zambian Humanism, by Timothy Kandeke ; Zambian Humanism, religion and social morality, by Cleve Dillion-Malone S. J.

Other proposed goals of philosophy include " discover the absolutely fundamental reason of everything it investigates ", " making explicit the nature and significance of ordinary and scientific beliefs ", and unifying and transcending the insights given by science and religion.

Other forms of bias including reporting that favors or attacks a particular race, religion, gender, age, sexual orientation, ethnic group, or even person.

A total of 22, 497 people stated ' Other religion ' in the 2006 census ; and a rough estimate is that there are 2, 000 – 3, 000 practicing pagans in Ireland as of 2009.

Other questions studied in the philosophy of religion include what, if anything, would give us good reason to believe that a miracle has occurred, what is the relationship between faith and reason, what is the relationship between morality and religion, what is the status of religious language, and does petitionary prayer ( sometimes still called impetratory prayer ) make sense?

Other reactions to natural theology are those of Wittgensteinian philosophers of religion, most notably D. Z. Phillips.

* Other religion: 8. 1 %

Other faiths exist in Panama by the country's tolerance and freedom of religion, there are large Protestant, Jewish, Baha, Muslim and Hindu religious groups in Panama.

Other sociologists of religion such as Fred Kniss have asserted that sectarianism is best described with regard to what a sect is in tension with.

Other sociologists have taken Durkheim's concept of what religion is in the direction of the religion of professional sports, the military, or of rock music.

Census data released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics in 2004 reported that Sinhalese Australians are by religion 29. 7 percent Catholic ; 8. 0 percent Anglican, 9. 9 percent other Christian ; 46. 9 percent " Other Religions " ( mainly Buddhist ), and 5. 5 percent no religion.

Other think tanks concern religion and how its influence could grow in an already religious country.

Other factors may have been the appeal of a religion that promotes peace and forgiveness, a desire to emulate the Europeans and to gain a similar abundance of material goods, and the Māori's polytheistic culture that easily accepted the new God.

Other sources assert that TM is not a religion, but a meditation technique ; and they hold that the TM movement is a spiritual organization, and not a religion or a cult.

Other states, whilst not containing constitutional provisions directly related to religion, nonetheless contain provisions forbidding discrimination on religious grounds ( see, for example, Article 1 of the French Constitution, article 15 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms and article 40 of the Constitution of Egypt ).

Other religions were tolerated, but could not practice their religion in public.

Other common claims are that Celtic Christianity denied the authority of the Pope, was less authoritarian than the Catholic Church, more spiritual, friendlier to women, more connected with nature, and more comfortable dealing with the ancient Celtic religion.